AND FAMILY DISPENSA-‘TORY. -) 
ceived the tafte of {weet or four, and thence prefented to.common fenfes to pafs judg- 
ment thereof: thirdly, and principally, the tongue is ordained for the pronunciation 
of {peech, of which faculty I muft crave leave to infift on, and that as briefly as may 
be. Speech is an excellent prefent, and very neceflary, given only unto man, enim 
index. &F {peculum , it is the interpreter and image of the foul; the heart’s meffenger : 
the gate through which doth pafs all that lieth within the dark and hidden corners 
of man: by. this the fpirit becomes vifible, Of all the externaliand ‘vifible parts of 
the body, that which cometh neareft to the heart is the root thereof, and that which 
cometh neareft the thoughts is fpeech: ‘* Out of the abundance of the heart the 
mouth fpeaketh.’’ . It is a powerful mafter, an imperious commander, it ftitreth ‘up, 
animateth, exafperateth, appeafeth, maketh fad, merry; it imprinteth whatever 
paflion.it handleth ; feedeth the foul of the hearer it maketh him bluth, wax pale, 
laugh, cry, tremble, mad with choler, leap for joy, whatnot? | It is the agent of all 
our concerns ; by it we traffic, peace is handled, affairs are managed, it is the band 
of human fociety ; hearing and fpeech anfwer and are accommodated the one to the 
other ; by thefe two the fouls are poured the one into the other; fo that, if thefe two 
Gates be fhut (as it is in thofe that are deaf and dumb), the {pirit remaineth folitary 
andmilerable. Hearing is the gate toenter, by it the fpirit receiveth all things from 
without, Speech is the gate to go out, through it the fpirit fendeth forth that which 
was within. From the communication of thete two, as from the ftroke of two flints, 
there cometh forth the fire of truth; and fo by the polifhing and. rubbing of ‘thefe 
two, knowledge cometh to.perfection; but hearing is the_firft and principal; for 
there can nothing come forth which did not firft enter; and ee he bap — 
altogether by.natureis.alfodumb. . .. 
ee mightenlarge a great deal r more in she nichtaibtide ofthe heady, int iaintehists 
heduse to:declare nothing but what may be pertinent in the manifeftation of the hu- 
gman faculties and virtues, I fhall conclude this difcourfe with a word or two of the 
fenfe.of rFrELinc, which is of no particular quality, but of all, hot, cold, dry; and 
amoift : it is deputed to.no particular organ, but is fpread abroad over the whole body ; 
itis the index of all tangible things, its object then muft be‘heat or cold, drought or 
_ soifture, things pleafant and polite, fharp and fmarting, motion, reft, tickling, © It 
:is known that man and other creatures may live without fome particular fenfe; it is 
the opinion of moft, that a man cannot live without this fenfe of feeling, being only 
_neceflary unto life ; yet Auguftine proveth the contrary; in the fourteenth: pie 
‘feel thofe that pulled him; nor would’ ftir though they burned him with’ fires yer 
-confefled: that he could then hear men fpeak (if they fpoke aloud) as though they 
—_— D . were 
» Dei, by example of-a Prefbyter, ‘that lay as though he were dead, arid did: ee 
